Developmental Pathway to Multidimensional Prosocial Behaviors in Adolescence: Mediating Effects of Empathy and Competence

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (9) ◽  
pp. 231-252
Author(s):  
Seon Ok Son
Keyword(s):  
Prosocial Behaviors ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
Developmental Pathway

scholarly journals Interrelationships and Methods for Improving University Students' Sense of Gain, Sense of Security, and Happiness

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linlin Feng ◽  
Hao Zhong
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Significant Negative Correlation ◽  
Prosocial Behaviors ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
Social Governance ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
Demographic Questionnaire ◽  
National Congress ◽  
Positive Correlations

The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China stressed the necessity to “keep up with people's ever-growing needs for a better life. We will continue to promote social fairness and justice, develop effective social governance, and maintain public order. With this we should see that our people will always have a strong sense of gain, happiness, and sense of security.” In this study, 646 university students were surveyed using the Demographic Questionnaire, Sense of Gain Scale, Sense of Security Scale, Orientations to Happiness Scale, and Prosocial Behavior Tendencies Scale to explore the relationships among sense of gain, sense of security and happiness (including meaning, pleasure, and engagement happiness), and to discuss methods for enhancing them on the basis of prosocial behaviors. The results revealed that (1) sense of gain had significant positive correlations with meaning, pleasure, and engagement happiness but a significant negative correlation with sense of security. Sense of security did not have a significant correlation with the three types of happiness. Prosocial behaviors had significant positive correlations with sense of gain and the three types of happiness but shared no significant correlation with sense of security. (2) Sense of gain significantly and positively predicted meaning, pleasure, and engagement happiness, whereas the interaction between sense of security and sense of gain did not yield a significant prediction for the three types of happiness. Prosocial behaviors significantly and positively predicted sense of gain and the three types of happiness. (3) Sense of gain had mediating effects on the relationships between prosocial behaviors and meaning, pleasure, and engagement happiness, whereas sense of security did not have a moderating effect on the relationships between sense of gain and the three types of happiness. Prosocial behaviors directly affect meaning, pleasure, and engagement happiness and can indirectly influence happiness through enhancing a sense of gain. The implementation of prosocial behaviors can not only provide help for others, but also promote the self-satisfaction of the behavior agents and help them get more happiness.

scholarly journals The protective role of prosocial behaviors on antisocial behaviors: The mediating effects of deviant peer affiliation

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 359-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Carlo ◽  
Maria Vicenta Mestre ◽  
Meredith M. McGinley ◽  
Ana Tur-Porcar ◽  
Paula Samper ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protective Role ◽  
Prosocial Behaviors ◽  
Antisocial Behaviors ◽  
Deviant Peer Affiliation ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
Peer Affiliation

Challenge Demands, Hindrance Demands, and Psychological Need Satisfaction

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon L. Albrecht
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Job Demands ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Need Satisfaction ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Job Resources ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
Psychological Need ◽  
Practical Implications

The job demands-resources (JD-R) model provides a well-validated account of how job resources and job demands influence work engagement, burnout, and their constituent dimensions. The present study aimed to extend previous research by including challenge demands not widely examined in the context of the JD-R. Furthermore, and extending self-determination theory, the research also aimed to investigate the potential mediating effects that employees’ need satisfaction as regards their need for autonomy, need for belongingness, need for competence, and need for achievement, as components of a higher order needs construct, may have on the relationships between job demands and engagement. Structural equations modeling across two independent samples generally supported the proposed relationships. Further research opportunities, practical implications, and study limitations are discussed.

Predictors of Aggressive and Prosocial Behaviors: A Longitudinal Perspective

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suscan D. McMahon ◽  
◽  
Ching-Fan Sheu ◽  
Seema Shah
Keyword(s):  
Prosocial Behaviors
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